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Disrupting the Canadian IP Communications Industry
The current concept of applying old rules to new services will have the effect of disrupting the near term future innovation in the Canadian IP Communications Industry.
Jeff Pulver Blog: Canada still has a chance to speak out about VoIP Regulation
Great, another chance to lag behind the US. Voice is an application -- let's just regulate it where it actually connects to the PSTN. Of course, the telcos managed to stall independent data providers quite nicely with interesting interconnect schemes.
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I am one of the persons who communicated with Jeff on this, as documented in my blog. I am still not clear why he says that CRTC is not aligned with FCC on this matter. So let me ask you why do you think CRTC is not just regulating where it actually connects to the PSTN (outside of regulating the incumbents)?
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Aswath
I think this will be unenforceable, and hence meaningless regulation. NANP has certain regulations around it, which obviously must be followed. Lets keep it at that.
If vast numbers of people are using IM clients or purely PC-to-PC clients, how is this different from standard data traffic? What numbers of users must communicate over purely private networks (even though they have a 10-digit "phone" number assigned) before the regulation is seen as insufficient/wrong?
I really do see both sides. For now, I believe that VoIP traffic, much like Internet commerce, needs to remain unregulated while still complying with all PSTN regulations where the two intersect. Selecting VoIP phone service is a choice, let's let consumers decide what they are willing to accept.